WASHINGTON D.C. — Right after the U.S. Senate passed a bill that makes sweeping changes to the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), Senator Chris Coons says he wants to add more funding to ...

“If we don’t start trusting our children, how will they ever become trustworthy?” -John Lithgow, Footloose (1984) We don’t normally open the newspaper with an editorial, but we want to demonstrate our support for small ...

It was the program heralded by the federal government to save America’s small businesses, but as the pandemic and its associated economic lockdowns linger, the flow of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program ...

The following letter was sent today (May 19) to Gov. Carney from 15 Kent and Sussex County legislators. Dear Governor Carney: We write today with extreme concern over the impact of the decisions that have ...

NEW CASTLE – Wilmington University is declining $3.1 million in federal stimulus funding earmarked for response to the coronavirus pandemic in favor of providing its own support to students. The university also said it is ...

PHILADELPHIA – The head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia told Delaware business leaders Tuesday morning that he expects the state’s banking and finance sectors to weather the coronavirus pandemic while manufacturing will “bounce ...

WILMINGTON – The record number of unemployment filers continues to grow in Delaware, as more than 13,000 workers filed claims in the week ending April 11. The U.S. Department of Labor’s weekly update on claims ...

WILMINGTON – An overwhelmed Delaware Department of Labor has been dealing for several weeks with an unprecedented tidal wave of unemployment claims, spurred by state-mandated closures of businesses amid the spread of the virus, that ...